100 Computer Science Departments Leading the Way in US Education

With how fast the world of technology is evolving it makes sense that computer education should be at the forefront of degree options. Right now, as far as technology is concerned, the sky is the limit in the business industry. If you can dream it, there is some developer that can do it. As we all begin to rely more and more on technology the demand for developers has greatly increased. For young professionals looking to find a career field that is in demand, look no further… software development, web development, programming, engineering, all of these skills are the future of business and entrepreneurship. People need these skill sets more now then they ever have before.

We here at Portal Front love to follow current technologies and we also consider ourselves advocates of technological education. Thus we decided to make a list that ranks some of the leading computer science departments in the nation. Many of these men and women that make up these computer science departments are some of the top minds in the world in computer technology today.

If you are looking to enter this field as a career option, we suggest following what these individuals and departments are working on and researching. These are by far the top Computer Science Departments in the U.S. If you are looking to become the best in the industry these are universities you should aspire to attend.

These rankings are based upon various sources of data including, USnews.com, SAT and ACT scores, acceptance rates, alumni giving and funding, faculty retention, average faculty salary, and student to professor ratio. We have also incorporated media coverage of recent research and advancements made by each department in our ranking scores.

Computer Science Department Leaders

Universities

1. Benno Bernt

Carnegie Mellon University

2. Anantha Chandrakasan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3. Jennifer Widom

Stanford University

4. Shankar Sastry

University of California–Berkeley

5. Joseph Halpern

Cornell University

6. Rob A. Rutenbar

University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

7. Laura Effinger

University of Washington

8. Andrew W. Appel

Princeton University

9. Dr. Bruce Porter

University of Texas–Austin

10. Annie Antón

Georgia Institute of Technology

11. Mathieu Desbrun

California Institute of Technology

12. Jeff Naughton

University of Wisconsin–Madison

13. Marios C. Papaefthymiou

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

14. Jens Palsberg

University of California–Los Angeles

15. Rajesh Gupta

University of California–San Diego

16. Larry S. Davis

University of Maryland–College Park

17. Julia Hirschberg

Columbia University

18. Maxwell Dworkin

Harvard University

19. Susan Davidson

University of Pennsylvania

20. Roberto Tamassia

Brown University

21. Sunil Prabhakar

Purdue University–West Lafayette

22. Joe Warren

Rice University

23. Lori Clarke

University of Massachusetts–Amherst

24. Anselmo Lastra

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

25. Gaurav Sukhatme

University of Southern California

26. Holly Rushmeier

Yale University

27. Carlo Tomasi

Duke University

28. Gregory D. Hager

Johns Hopkins University

29. Michael L. Overton

New York University

30. Xiaodong Zhang

Ohio State University

31. Henry C. Foley

Pennsylvania State University–University Park

32. Michael L. Littman

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick

33. Jessica Utts

University of California–Irvine

34. Kevin Skadron

University of Virginia

35. Alan V. Sahakian

Northwestern University

36. Subhash Suri

University of California–Santa Barbara

37. John Anton Goldsmith

University of Chicago

38. Vipin Kumar

University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

39. Prasant Mohapatra

University of California–Davis

40. James H. Martin

University of Colorado–Boulder

41. Gerhard X Ritter

University of Florida

42. Al Davis

University of Utah

43. Jeremy Buhler

Washington University in St. Louis

44. Thomas H. Cormen

Dartmouth College

45. Arie Kaufman

Stony Brook University–SUNY

46. Barbara Ryder

Virginia Tech

47. Stan Sclaroff

Boston University

48. Mladen Vouk

North Carolina State University

49. James A. Hendler

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

50. Bjarne Stoustrup

Texas A&M University–College Station

51. Saumya Debray

University of Arizona

52. Henry Kautz

University of Rochester

53. Yann-Hang Lee

Arizona State University

54. Robert Schnabel

Indiana University–Bloomington

55. Laxmi N. Bhuyan

University of California–Riverside

56. Jim Whitehead

University of California–Santa Cruz

57. Daniel Mosse

University of Pittsburgh

58. Matt Mutka

Michigan State University

59. Robert Sloan

University of Illinois–Chicago

60. Daniel M. Fleetwood

Vanderbilt University

61. Larry Finkelstein

Northeastern University

62. Aidong Zhang

University at Buffalo–SUNY

62. Michael Branicky

Case Western Reserve University

63. Sanjeev Setia

George Mason University

64. Carl K. Chang

Iowa State University

65. Terri Fiez

Oregon State University

66. Chilukuri Mohan

Syracuse University

67. Alberto Segre

University of Iowa

68. Kevin W. Bowyer

University of Notre Dame

69. Eugene Luks

University of Oregon

70. Kevin Tomsovic

University of Tennessee–Knoxville

71. James Pustejovsky

Brandeis University

72. Peter J. Denning

Naval Postgraduate School

73. Keith W Ross

Polytechnic Institute of New York University

74. Carla Brodely

Tufts University

75. Reda Ammar

University of Connecticut

76. Errol Lloyd

University of Delaware

77. Gary Carter

University of Maryland–Baltimore County

78. Amy Apon

Clemson University

79. Virginia Torczon

College of William and Mary

80. Darrell Whitley

Colorado State University

81. Florian Lengyel

CUNY Graduate School and University Center

82. Robert A. van Engelen

Florida State University

83. Abdou Youssef

George Washington University

84. Glenn Prescott

University of Kansas

85. Steve Goddard

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

86. George F. Luger

University of New Mexico

87. Gopai Gupta

University of Texas–Dallas

88. Behrooz A. Shirazi

Washington State University

89. Kai Chang

Auburn University

90. Parris Egbert

Brigham Young University

91. James Geller

New Jersey Institute of Technology

92. George Berg

University at Albany–SUNY

93. Gary T. Leavens

University of Central Florida

94. Heinz-Bernd Schüttler

University of Georgia

95. Kenneth L Calvert

University of Kentucky

96. Craig Wills

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

98. Bruce Char

Drexel University

99. Yi Pan

Georgia State University

100. Gurdip Singh

Kansas State University

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While it is an honor to be named, it it important to note that this is only my third month as Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, the following three former/current chairs of our schools share the responsibility for our computer science degrees and deserve the true credit for Georgia Tech’s current ranking: Aaron Bobick (former chair of the School of Interactive Computing), Richard Fujimoto (current chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering), and Ellen Zegura (former chair of the School of Computer Science).

Sincerely,
Annie I. Antón, Professor in and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech